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20 May 2020, 9:39 am
" If this makes me a Trumpista, so be it, though it should be obvious that my argument also applied to the prospect of Paul Ryan becoming president should anything have happened to both Obama and Biden or Newt Gingrich succeeding Clinton and Gore in similar circumstances. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 10:38 am
But contemporary debates on the question began with Newt Gingrich’s apparently frequent claim, when he was speaker of the House in the 1990s, that he was two heartbeats away from the presidency. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 5:09 pm
Not surprisingly for those of you who are members of the ABA Tax Section, there is a meeting of that group next week in Florida when a thousand tax lawyers (give or take a few) will be talking about everything from basis to wealth taxes; GILTI, BEAT, Dual BEIT, to EITC. [read post]
23 Jan 2020, 12:44 pm
The prospect of Newt Gingrich plotting to install Al Gore in the White House would have been a strange sort of coup indeed. [read post]
27 Dec 2019, 3:05 pm
"Ted Kennedy 'a fat slob,' Steve Forbes 'a meanspirited creep,' Dan Rather 'a loony,' Rush Limbaugh 'a drug-addled gas bag.' Many listeners detected the toxins of Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Mort Sahl or Groucho Marx.... [read post]
19 Dec 2019, 10:28 am
So were many House members, including then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, who called the bill “clearly a violation of free speech. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 7:41 am
While the PLRA was enacted in the 1990s during the Bill Clinton/Newt Gingrich period, courts are still interpreting what the statute means.The case is Escalara v. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 5:59 am
Policymakers as diverse as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, and even President Donald Trump, have called for shrinking the largest financial firms. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 1:44 pm
Anybody who was hoping for a clear account of the differences between Sanders’s political ambitions and those of autocratic socialist regimes is a fellow traveler of Richard Nixon, Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, Donald Trump, and the Heritage Foundation....The speech Sanders gave was not serious.It's enough (and it's better) to say "not serious. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
Well before Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign, the Fed eased off, the economy grew, and the myth of Reagan as savior (and the supposedly miraculous effects of tax cuts for upper-income people) was born.In the decades since then, Newt Gingrich’s radical revolution moved the Republicans even further to the right, followed by the Tea Party movement in the early Obama years, and now they have all joined the cult of Trump. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm
‘The Most Effective Organization’ for Conservatives, Says Newt GingrichUSA Today – Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Rob O’Dell | Published: 4/4/2019 The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) became the nation’s best-known so-called model bill factory over its four decades by providing more than fill-in-the-blank legislation. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 1:00 am
A comment from Manafort’s lawyer, Kevin Downing, suggesting his client was selectively prosecuted An indictment of Paul Manafort by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office; plus an article from the NYT on the DA’s charges College Admissions Scandal Listener question from Still Paul The college admissions scandal indictment, and a report from NPR about the scandal The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, plus an article from the NYT about RICO… [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 7:31 am
In a recent piece in Newsweek entitled “If China Dominates 5G, It Will Control the Future,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich highlights both the huge potential in advanced 5G networks and the threat posed by China. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
After all, these are people who are truly conservative in almost all dimensions, not having abandoned the Republicans even while it was lurching further and further to the right over the years when Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney defined the party’s march to previously unknown extremes.It is to the NeverTrumpers’ credit that they did finally walk away when they saw an openly autocratic demagogue take over their party. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
From trying to claim that she is not truly of modest means to claiming that she mishandles her personal finances, Republicans have targeted Ocasio-Cortez with a ferocity rarely seen in politics.Democrats have in the past used Newt Gingrich as the (unappealing) face of their op [read post]
CNN requests KUSI for local view on the border, declines our reporter after finding out wall works -
11 Jan 2019, 7:15 pm
KUSI offered our own Dan Plante, who has reported dozens of times on the border, including one story from 2016 that was retweeted by former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, and posted on DrudgeReport.com. [read post]
29 Oct 2018, 5:06 am
What would stop them from launching the full-scale assault on the welfare state that Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan never mustered the courage to fully enact? [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 3:06 am
Three decades of remorseless ideological and cultural combat—over Robert Bork, over Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, over Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, over Bush v. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 8:45 am
To wit: “Ostrich” (early Barry Goldwater) “Cheerleader” (Newt Gingrich) “Lemon Sucker” (Daniel Moynihan) “Guardian” (Lee Hamilton) “Spy Watching” fills these out with a rich supply of examples. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 4:21 pm
Whatever the Russians did, they did while Brennan was director of the CIA, Clapper was director of national intelligence, and James Comey was head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [read post]
